Posted By CotoBlogzz
Leavenworth, WA – the Icicle Creek Center for the Arts has
unveiled its 2012 Young Pianists Festival featuring pianists Oksana Ezhokina
and Jody Graves in exciting evenings of
piano music, for solo piano and piano
four hands by Bach, Chopin, Liszt, Bizet, Poulenc and Piazzolla Sunday, July 29
& Saturday, August 4, 7PM at Canyon Wren Recital Hall - 7409 Icicle Road, Leavenworth
Oksana Ezhokina is Icicle Creek's Artistic Director &
Resident Pianist, member of the Icicle Creek Piano Trio; chamber performances
at Klasik Keyifler Festival in Turkey, Davies Hall in San Francisco, the
Phillips Collection inWashington, DC; appointed Chair of the Piano Studies at
Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma starting the Fall of 2011.
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| Oksana Ezhokina photo by Keith Brofsky
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Jody Graves is recognized nationally as a distinguished
artist and teacher of piano. Her recital engagements as a soloist and
collaborative pianist take her across the United States and abroad. She has
performed concerts in Austria, Norway, France, Scotland, Germany, Japan, and in
May 2006 toured in the Persian Gulf serving as a Cultural Ambassador for the
U.S. State Department. The Middle East Tour, with the Sapphire Trio, included
concerts in Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. The press reviews have
called their performances "exciting...imaginative and compelling." In
April, 2010, she was invited to judge the National Palestinian Piano Festival
in Jerusalem, and following that event toured the West Bank region with the
Sapphire Trio performing concerts and giving master classes in such cities as
Bethlehem and Ramallah. The Sapphire Trio will return to the Middle East for a
concert tour and master classes in April, 2011 which will include Jordan,
Nablus, and various other cities in the West Bank.
Then
on Sunday, August 5th at 1PM you can watch
talented young pianists perform- Free
Admission.
